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Top Gun 2
- Thread starter danpass
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Minnesota Tomcat
Turkeybeast
I admit I enjoyed the film, even though it was so unrealistic.
I got to peak behind the curtain at a TLAM course I took just a little while ago. The guy in charge? A former Hornet guy. Suck it shoes!
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Guy that was in the scif and always on the road doing TLAM stuff for NAVEUR when I was there in the mid 90s was a bug pilot. RIP Q-Tip.
The TLAM program is a NAVAIR program so I'm not sure why that's so surprising.
Yep, and someone from the F/A-18 community should have a solid grasp of TLAM fundamentals, particularly if they're senior enough to have gone through the SLUI (strike lead) syllabus. Generally, they should be a good choice to lead the program.
Bottom line: target the SAMS and the enemy airfield so your Hornets can fly down the Death Star trench and bomb the thermal exhaust port using the force with no targeting computer.
"Any problem on Earth can be solved with the careful application of high explosives. The trick is not to be around when they go off."
My question is why do we keep calling it a TLAM long after the L is irrelevant?
Because there used to be TASMs too, but they went away, and for the whole GWOT, "Tomahawk" has equalled "TLAM."
It's the Kleenex of military acronyms.
This guy gets it.
I was actually talking about the strike planning piece, something I was long vaguely aware of but it was interesting to see how the sausage was made planning-wise and while learning about the missiles themselves. I had a CAG selectee go through the class with me and I think it was standard part of their training if they didn't have exposure before.
The TACRON gouge pack I once had talked about “Flying Monkey Syndrome,” when the CSG TLAM planners never talked to the ESG planners to deconflict the AOA, and then a bunch of TLAMs came zorching through like the flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz.
I think I mentioned this before, but one of the dets from my first squadron was pooping along the first night OIF kicked off when all of a sudden a big plume of fire erupted out of the water right in front of them. They obviously tried to quickly find an exit strategy.
Good old FFG situational awareness strikes again, but hey, CERTSUB!
Good old FFG situational awareness strikes again, but hey, CERTSUB!
Shot down by a sub launched Tomahawk. That will put you in the history books.